| CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post (AP) [6 mins] AP - President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday. CNN said it has kept Gupta from reporting on health care policy and other matters involving the incoming Obama administration since learning he was under consideration for the post. | Israel shells near UN school, killing at least 30 (AP) [7 mins][Israel] AP - Israeli mortar shells struck outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people many of them children whose parents wailed in grief at a hospital filled with dead and wounded. |